KELLY, SIR FITZROY EDWARD (son of Robert Hawke Kelly, captain R.N.) _b._ London 9 Oct. 1796; practised as special pleader; barrister L.I. 7 May 1824; went Norfolk circuit; K.C. 27 Dec. 1834, bencher of his inn 1838–66; contested Hythe 1830, Ipswich 1832 and 1841, and Lyme Regis 1847; M.P. for Ipswich 8 Jany. 1835 to June 1835 when unseated on petition; contested Ipswich 27 July 1837, seated on petition 26 Feb. 1838 and sat for it until 1841; M.P. for Cambridge borough 1843–1847, M.P. East Suffolk 1852–1866; standing counsel to Bank of England, May 1845; solicitor general 29 June 1845 to 2 July 1846 and 27 Feb. 1852 to 28 Dec. 1852; knighted at Buckingham palace 8 Aug. 1845; attorney general 26 Feb. 1858 to 18 June 1859; serjeant at law 16 July 1866, admitted 2 Nov. 1866; lord chief baron of court of exchequer 16 July 1866 to Nov. 1875 when he became a judge of supreme court of judicature but retained his former title by act of parliament; P.C. 10 Nov. 1866. _d._ Bedford hotel, Brighton 17 Sep. 1880. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 22 Sep. _A generation of Judges. By Their Reporter_ (1886) 38–53; _Public men of Ipswich_ (1875) 71–8; _Illust. news of the world_, _vol. i_ (1858), _portrait_; _I.L.N. vii_ 48 (1845) _portrait_, _lxxvii_ 324 (1880) _portrait_.
NOTE.--At one time his income at the bar amounted to £25,000 a year, a sum scarcely ever equalled by an advocate of late years, except by Lord Selborne when Roundell Palmer. He made his famous defence of John Tawell the Quaker murderer, at Aylesbury assizes March 1845, which gained him sobriquet of ‘Apple pip Kelly,’ this was the first occasion on which the telegraph was called in to assist in securing a murderer. See _Browne and Stewart’s Reports of trials_ (1883) 16–49.
KELLY, FRANCES MARIA (dau. of Mark Kelly _d._ Canterbury 4 April 1833). _b._ Brighton 15 Dec. 1790; appeared at Drury Lane in opera of Bluebeard 16 Jany. 1798; chorister Drury Lane 1799; took many of Madame Storace’s characters and afterwards those of Mrs. Jordan, at Drury Lane and the Italian opera 1800–1806; learnt Italian, French and Latin; co-operated with Edmund Kean at Drury Lane 1812 and frequently played Ophelia to his Hamlet; while acting in Modern Antiques at Covent Garden 17 Feb. 1816 George Barnett fired a pistol at her; made final appearance at Drury Lane 8 June 1835; besides impersonating many of Shakespeare’s heroines, she played all the leading comedy characters in the English drama, and was superior in melodrama to all other actresses; lessee of New Strand theatre where she gave a monologue entertainment Feb. to Oct. 1833 with which she afterwards travelled in the provinces; built a theatre at back of 73 Dean st. Soho for a dramatic school, opened 25 March 1840 and called Miss Kelly’s theatre, where she gave occasional dramatic performances; gave Shakespeare readings in the country; her theatre seized by the landlord 1849, she lost £16,000. _d._ Ross cottage, Feltham, Middlesex 6 Dec. 1882. _bur._ Brompton cemetery 16 Dec. _Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography_, _i_ 215–24 (1825), _portrait_; _Mrs. C. B. Wilson’s Our actresses_, _ii_ 223–34 (1844); _Illust. sp. and dr. news_, _xii_ 414 (1880), _portrait_; _Theatrical Inquisitor_, _v_ 203–206 (1814), _portrait_, _viii_ 83–86 (1816), _portrait_; _I.L.N. viii_ 9 (1846), _portrait_, _lxxxi_ 661 (1882), _portrait_.
NOTE.--Her sister Lydia Eliza Kelly an actress _b._ London 2 June 1795, _d._ in U.S. of America before 1882. _Theatrical Inquisitor_, _vi_ 323 (1815), _portrait_; _Ireland’s Records_, _i_ 433 (1866).
KELLY, FRANCIS (son of Edward Kelly). _b._ Drumragh, co. Tyrone 31 July 1813; ed. at Maynooth 1835; ordained priest 13 June 1840; C. of Drumragh 1840–6; professor in the diocesan seminary, Derry, July 1846; C. of Strabane; C. of Culdaff; parish priest of Upper Fahan to 1849; D.D.; bishop of Derry 8 Aug. 1849 to death, consecrated in Derry 21 Oct. 1849; built Derry cath. at cost of £40,000. _d._ St. Eugene’s, Derry 1 Sep. 1889. _The Derry Journal 2, 4, 6 Sep. 1889._
KELLY, GORDON WILLIAM (only child of rev. Dr. John Kelly 1750–1809, Manx scholar, V. of Ardleigh near Colchester). _b._ Isle of Man 1786; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., fellow, B.A. 1808, M.A. 1811; called to bar of Isle of Man; recorder of Colchester to death. (_m._ 1830 Miss White, she founded 1858 the Kelly scholarship in King William’s college, Isle of Man, also the Kelly prize in same college for proficiency in the Manx language). _d._ Oxney Green House, Whittle near Chelmsford 4 April 1858.
KELLY, JOHN. _b._ Edinburgh 1 Dec. 1801; independent minister of Bethesda chapel, Liverpool, Sep. 1829; his new chapel at Everton, Liverpool, opened 23 Nov. 1837, retired from it 28 Sep. 1873; a director of London missionary society many years; chairman of Congregational union of England and Wales in London, May 1851, and at Northampton, Oct. 1851; author of The voluntary support of the Christian ministry the law of the New Testament 1838; Discourses on holy scripture 1850 and other books. _d._ 18 Richmond terrace, Liverpool 12 June 1876. _Hassan’s Rev. John Kelly, a memorial_ (1876), _portrait_; _Waddington’s Congregational history_, _v_ 561–9 (1880).
KELLY, JOHN. _b._ 1834; presbyterian minister at Hebburn and Streatham; editor of tracts of Religious tract soc. 56 Paternoster row, London; author of P. Gerhardt’s Spiritual songs, translated 1867; The king and the kingdom 1867; Who is the apostate? A passover story by A Saphir, translated 1878; Louisa of Prussia and other sketches 1888. _d._ Braemar 19 July 1890. _Christian World 24 July 1890 p._ 601.
KELLY, MATTHEW (eld. son of James Kelly). _b._ Maudlin st. Kilkenny 21 Sep. 1814; studied at Maynooth 1831–9; professor of philosophy and theology successively in the Irish college, Paris 1839–41; professor of belles-lettres and French at Maynooth 5 Nov. 1841, of ecclesiastical history 20 Oct. 1857 to death; created D.D. by Pius IX. 1854; a canon of Ossory about 1854; member of council of Celtic Society for which he edited John Lynch’s Cambrensis Eversus. Dublin 3 vols. 1848–52; also edited White’s Apologia 1849, and O’Sullivan Beare’s Historiæ Catholicæ Hiberniæ Compendium; author of Calendar of Irish saints, the martyrology of Tallagh, with notices of the patron saints of Ireland. Dublin 1857. _d._ Maynooth 30 Oct. 1858. _Dissertations chiefly on Irish church history, by M. Kelly_ (1864), _with a memoir by Dr. Mc.Carthy, pp. v–xiii_.
KELLY, PETER BURROWES. _b._ Stradbally; called to bar in Ireland; clerk of the peace for Queen’s co. to death; contributed to Dublin Review and other periodicals; author of The manor of Glenmore, or the Irish peasant. By a Member of the Irish bar 3 vols. 1839; The Polish mother, a tragedy in five acts 1840, and of some light dramatic pieces which are still played. _d._ Glentolka, Fairview near Dublin 24 March 1883. _Irish Law Times_, _xvii_ 183 191 (1883).
KELLY, THOMAS (son of John Kelly of Chevening, Kent, innkeeper, _d._ 1810). _b._ Chevening 7 Jany. 1772; assistant in employ of Alexander Hogg of 16 Paternoster row 1786–1809; publisher at 52 Paternoster row 1809; one of common council of ward of Farringdon within 9 May 1823, alderman of same ward Dec. 1830 to death; sheriff of London 1825–6, lord mayor 1836–37; lived at Streatham hill; printed Kelly’s Practical Builders’ price book 1850, 2 ed. 1861. _d._ 4 Buenos Ayres, Margate 7 Sep. 1855. _bur._ churchyard of Chelsham, Surrey, by the side of his parents. _Passages from the life of Alderman Kelly. By R. C. Fell_ (1856), _portrait_; _Curwen’s Booksellers_ (1873) 363–71.
KELLY, THOMAS CONYNYHAM. _b._ 22 Dec. 1808; ensign 31 foot 3 April 1828, lieut. col. 15 June 1855 to 11 March 1857 when placed on h.p.; lieut. col. of 38 foot 17 July 1857, and of 47 foot 4 Feb. 1859 to 3 March 1863 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 22 Dec. 1878; hon. general 1 July 1881; C.B. 17 June 1858. _d._ Ellerslie, Canterbury 15 March 1887.
KELSEY, ELIZABETH. _b._ 1852; ballet dancer and actress; appeared in New York 12 Sep. 1866 with her sister Harriet Kelsey in The White Fawn, then in The Black Crook; appeared in burlesques in the English provinces to 1886; played in New York in Lost in the Snow. _d._ New York 14 Feb. 1888.
KELSIEFF, BASIL IVANOVITCH. _b._ St. Petersburg about 1835; came to London 1857; on the staff of Alexander Hertzen’s journal The Kolokol; with his brother John Kelsieff attempted a revolution in Russia which failed; returned to England 1865; removed publication of the Kolokol to Geneva; reconciled to Russian government; published many works in Russian. _d._ St. Petersburg 1872.